Yesterday's Love. Sherryl Woods
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Название: Yesterday's Love
Автор: Sherryl Woods
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
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“Do you always show up for work an hour late?” he was demanding irritably, a scowl on his handsome face.
“I have an ‘in’ with the owner,” she responded tartly, as she unlocked the door and stalked inside.
“That is no way to—”
“Run a business,” Katherine Marshall chimed in. “I’ve been telling her that very thing myself. Hello. I’m Victoria’s mother.”
She held out her hand and waited expectantly. Tate took it, then looked in amazement from this trim, tidy woman with the firm handshake and no-nonsense style to Victoria in another one of her outrageous getups. He’d never have believed it. This woman seemed perfectly…normal. She would never keep her bills in shopping bags.
“Tate McAndrews,” he told her. “I’m from—”
“Tate is a friend from Cincinnati,” Victoria interrupted quickly, shooting him a warning glance. “I’m surprised to see you again so soon.”
“I needed to talk to you about—”
“Dinner.”
“Oh, is Victoria making you dinner tonight, Tate?” Katherine Marshall asked cheerfully. “How lovely. Why don’t the two of you drop by the house for dessert?”
“Mother!”
“We’d love to, Mrs. Marshall.”
“Are you out of your mind?” Victoria snapped at him, marching into the back room with Tate trailing after her.
“What’s wrong with you? I was just trying to be polite.”
“Don’t you realize that if we go over there for dessert tonight, my mother will have the church reserved by next weekend? She already thinks we’re involved,” she told him, her brows lifting significantly. “That’s in capital letters, by the way.”
“Involved?” Tate repeated, his expression completely baffled. “You mean…?” His eyes widened as the implication finally registered. “Why on earth would she think that?”
“Your jacket.”
“My jacket?” Tate was getting that spinning sensation in his head again.
“You left it in the kitchen. My mother, the protector of my virtue, found it there this morning. She’s assumed the worst.”
Tate burst out laughing. He couldn’t help it. “You’re kidding!”
“I do not kid about matters such as marriage and murder, particularly when they’re my own.”
“Can we expect to find your father on the front porch with a shotgun?”
Victoria gave him a withering glance. “Okay,” she warned. “Make fun of me. But I’m telling you, before you know it, that woman in there is going to have you marching down the aisle.”
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